Dutch extreme thrash
metal band INQUISITOR recently recorded a new album, which has been released in
January 2018 by Hammerheart Records and bares the title “Stigmata Me, I'm in
Misery”. This new album will mark the true return of INQUISITOR. The album got
great reactions from fans and excellent reviews from the metal press. On the
new album it's clear that INQUISITOR stuck to their guns and hardly changed
anything to their furious, unorthodox over the top style of extreme thrash
metal but managed to expand it a little bit with interesting ideas, but without
compromising the music.
Although INQUISITOR is the sum of its four talented equals, the
defining element of INQUISITOR however are the unique and outstanding vocals of
Alex Wesdijk whose voice has lost nothing of its sickness.
INQUISITOR has been around for a
little while again since the unthinkable happened in October 2014, when after
almost two decades, INQUISITOR, resurrected in its original line-up. This
unexpected rebirth happened only about one month prior to the re-release of
INQUISITOR'S infamous debut album “Walpurgis – Sabbath of Lust”, which has been
done by Hammerheart Records in collaboration with members of INQUISITOR. The
original album, and the demo's of the original line-up, have especially been
remastered by JB v/d Wal (ex-Aborted, Herder, Dool) for this re-release, which
is available on a 2CD format and on two separate LP's. The
original album,
which was released on CD only in 1996, has long been out of print, and
eventually became a collector's item for those who are searching for an obscure
release like “Walpurgis – Sabbath of Lust”.
What INQUISITOR sonically produced
was fast, intense, extreme, uncompromising metal and on top of it, were the
sick and at the same time unique vocals of Alex Wesdijk, which in the end
defined their own outstanding sound. The notoriously blasphemous artworks and
some of the not-so-christianfriendly lyrics were a reaction to their existence
in a part of the so-called Dutch bible belt.
The original line-up of INQUISITOR
emerged in December 1991 from a Dutch area called The Veluwe. Their aim was to
create an extreme form of thrash metal combined with dark and blasphemous
lyrics. The result can be heard on their first demo “Blasphemous Accusations”
which was released in 1992, and on their second demo “Your Pain Will Be
Exquisite”, which was unleashed upon mankind in 1993. To gain a following,
several gigs were done in The Netherlands, but also in Belgium and Germany. In
1995, INQUISITOR and bass-player/founding member Alex Bakker unfortunately went
their separate ways. He was replaced by Hans Pos with whom the bassduties were
done on the album “Walpurgis – Sabbath of Lust”, which was recorded in the RS29
Studio with Oscar Holleman in 1995, and was released by Shiver Records in 1996.
With the new line-up, their self-proclaimed style of
Pure God-Damned metal was
promoted through gigs in The Netherlands and also in Germany.
However, shortly after the
release of “Walpurgis – Sabbath of Lust”, INQUISITOR slowly fall apart. In
October 1996, vocalist Alex Wesdijk was no longer a member
of INQUISITOR, and two months later in December, guitarist Erik Sprooten left,
and joined ANCIENT RITES permanently. Drummer Wim van der Valk moved on with
new members, but the sound changed dramatically that eventually a new band
emerged out of this, which became known as CENTURIAN. In 2002 Wim van der Valk
pulled the plug out of CENTURIAN, and hardly bashed the skins of his drumkit
for about 12 years until the unexpected reincarnation of INQUISITOR in 2014.
INQUISITOR has come full circle now, and is back with a vengeance!
Inquisitor is (fltr):
Alex Wesdijk – Vocals
Alex Bakker – Bass guitar
Erik Sprooten – Guitar
Wim van der Valk – Drums
DISCOGRAPHY:
| Blasphemous Accusations | Demo | 1992 | |
| Your Pain Will Be Exquisite | Demo | 1993 | |
| Crush the Holy Church | Split | 1993 | |
| Walpurgis - Sabbath of Lust | Full-length | 1996 | |
| The Demos | Compilation | 2014 | |
| I Am Sick, I Must Die | EP | 2017 | |
| Stigmata Me, I'm in Misery | Full-length | 2017 |
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